I read the series cuz I wanted to support a Chicago writer, but holy hell are they progressively terrible. The third book is particularly slight and aimless. I’m baffled as to how they plan on splitting so little story, so little consequence.
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That’s where the similarities stopped.
It’s hard to overstate just how badly I want Mariota to thrive and Winston to bust. The 30 for 30 on the Bucs’ decision would just be so glorious.
close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades
THAT’S THE BEAUTY OF IT
Sure, but also Fink’s Pulitzer-winning book is the history that will be remembered. It’s erasure, and if you already feel like your town and culture is being erased, I get it, especially from a writer’s perspective (and in the context of this piece). To quote Hamilton, “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?” This…
This is the most Gawker-esque articled I’ve seen in awhile on io9. Do you think you could be any more shocked and disgusted at absolutely nothing?
Nooooo! I’ll never join you!
homegirl is fucking lucky as shit and also has the lightest period on god’s green earth bc if that was me please believe they would have blurred out my entire lower half and all 26 miles behind me that were literred w huge globs of my uterine lining.
Even weirder - Clark Gregg wrote the screenplay?!
I feel compelled to share this bit of wisdom by David Foster Wallace everywhere I read anything about suicide in the hopes that it can help people - even one person - understand. (Kinja screwed up the formatting and won’t let me change it, but I feel like it’s kind of appropriate for the message.)
I swear to jebus, if this is just some marketing campaign for a goddamned Meryl Streep film.....
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Okay. Drop him off at my place, please.
Yeah, I don’t see anyone grieving him too hard. I’m just afraid the Bears will pick him up after they look into his eyes and feel confident he’s a good person.
I’m pretty sure they explained what happened in the Doctor Who episode “The Wasp and the Unicorn.”